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  1. Old Twins Cap
    My elbow hurts just seeing that picture. All the best, but keep the Tommy John Doc's number on speed-dial.
  2. Old Twins Cap
    Never hurts to have plus defense on the left side of infield for the late innings. They are serious about Sano playing 3B, at least until the 8th.
  3. Old Twins Cap
    So, phonetically, should be: A -- ee -- ray when the "A" is the true letter A. {"H" is silent of course in Spanish.} Adrianza is pedestrian, though the A is the "ah" as it always is in Spanish.
  4. Old Twins Cap
    Well, the Twins won't be winning the World Series in 2017. Can they win 75-80 games? Can some of their young pitchers develop? Can the young outfield and infield hit and play defense? Will they be fun to watch? Over 40 years now of watching the Twins, you learn to enjoy the little things, especially when the big things don't go well.
  5. Old Twins Cap
    Especially if the Twins peruse Bautista instead of pursuing him.
  6. Old Twins Cap
    Yeah, I get that, which is why I said at the beginning: They are not good comps in terms of stats. I'm talking physical, statuesque, RH swingers who pull the ball. That's all. They don't grow on trees, with the strong top-hand. If Dozier could hit homers with men on base, bat fourth, and play first base, I'd call him Killer to my friends.
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Killebrew and Dozier may not be good comps in terms of lifetime stats, or F-wars, but I tell you what: I saw Killebrew play, and not many people realize he was only 5'11'. How tall is Dozier? And, really, if you watch their swings, what stands out is the twist in the lower torso. Not a lot of movement, but sudden twist at the end, and of course, the strong top-hand. Pull, pull, pull. Out of the park to left-field, high and long and deep. I've been saying it for awhile, so I will say it again: Dozier's closest cousin on the Twins' club's long player list is Harmon Killebrew. And sure enough, he is the next player after Killer to crush 40HRs. You don't trade that for some jazzy LA maybe's. Not ever.
  8. Old Twins Cap
    Falvey and Levine find a good help-mate in Woolfson. Put that out on Twitter, up the heat on the Dodgers. Likelihood that any of this is true? Pretty low. But, gotta like the new guys' moxie. Use whatever you got to get the best deal, and journalists are certainly a willing and low-cost alternative.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    The point here is that signing a player represents investing in an "asset". That asset can go up or down in value. If and when that asset increases in value, you have the ability to cash it in against some other currency, i.e. younger, high upside prospects. I don't like the house flipping metaphor myself, because that is just about greed. But acquiring baseball players as assets, then seeing how the pieces fit, how they appreciate and when to deal is just the reality of being a GM in 2016. You place a bet on someone and hope it works out.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    What I heard from Falvey is that they are going to be open-minded, data-driven, far-reaching, but then measure and hold everyone in the organization accountable to outcomes. That's it. That's your rebuild right there. No more, nebulous "Twins way", "getting after it", "working their tails off", kind of a lazy manager/front office hope that things will work out. Cliche driven, episodic, chancey bets on a bunch of guys. The new Twins way is about accountability to a organization-wide plan that is based on real outcomes as measured by specific metrics. No more sacred cows. You measure up or you measure out: clear, accepted norms of what constitutes a measurable trajectory toward success. For once, the Twins will stand for something that constitutes forward movement. The old boys' network, they will be in the stands watching real baseball for a change.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    No one ever says it, but at some point, we have to consider trading Sano. Why? He took a step back last year, and his natural position is going to be 1B, where Twins have a monster logjam. Head case? Fielding liability? Strike-out percentage? Clubhouse cancer? Everybody talks about his high ceiling, but what if there is no helium in the Sano balloon? Kid had a movie made about him at 16. That could be peaking early, or really, peaking prematurely. Will make last out of game at 3B, miss cutoff men, and generally look confused.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    Ahhh, weep for those days. Gaetti hopping like a chicken after the Evans pick off. Hits from up and down the line up. A stopper. The starters. Defense. Youth. Home grown. The underdogs become champions. Weep for those days.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Sometimes big guys take longer to get to their peak. Age 28 or 29 before they have full motor control of a very large apparatus. I remember a guy named Ortiz who played pretty well for the Twins, but was oft-injured and they let him go.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    Buy the worst house on the block. Done.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    Duffey somewhat risky out of the pen, because of being a curve ball pitcher. Just unusual is all. And Wimmers, not getting any love here. I like the movement on his pitches.
  16. Old Twins Cap
    This would be great news, if true. The games I have seen, he can't throw -- one of or both -- his curve ball, or his slide-piece, or his change-up for strikes, allowing batters to cross one or both of his other pitches off the list and sit on one pitch. He has to throw strikes. Period. Then he can expand the zone. The hitters know what's coming for sure. How and why they know that is what Berrios needs to resolve.
  17. Old Twins Cap
    Either Buxton is the stud that the entire Baseball Establishment has crowned him as or he's the biggest bust of the 21st century. Like the aggressive swings he is taking now. I can handle 30% strikeout rate if he hits 30 HRs, though that's a different player than I imagined. Twins' luck has been really poor ever since Cuddyer hit a ground ball to 2B in Toronto in 2010. At some point, we get lucky again.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    If I am pitching to Rosario, why throw him a strike? Ever. Let him get himself out. That level of scouting will permeate the MLB approach to him if he doesn't learn to lay off bad balls. It will, and his ability to mash will be reduced.
  19. Old Twins Cap
    Luis Arraez, an Hispanic left-handed middle infield version of Kirby Puckett, without the power? Anyone know what his BB/SO numbers were?
  20. Old Twins Cap
    Blackburn who throws a ball as heavy as a shot-put. How many HRs has he allowed on an annual basis?
  21. Old Twins Cap
    Twins game is not over yet. How do you know they won?
  22. Old Twins Cap
    Murphy hits one 3-run jack at Target Field in 2015 and for that, he became la desiderata of Terry Ryan's catching fantasy. And Suzuki, his lack of arm doesn't mean much this year, during a down year, but put the Twins in some close games and a pennant race ... that's when it will be a glaring weakness. Only need a shortstop, a catcher and a CF'er at this point. LOL. Oh and a pitching staff.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    Certainly looking like a trend: Twins have an Ace prospect. He comes up, and while physically adept, is somehow overmastered by the rest of the league. Pitchers and hitters both. Twins prospects are suspects, and why that happens, I can't begin to understand.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    Liriano-esque. Get that hard slider to work.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    Ryan could see that Pohlad wants new blood, from outside the organization. So, he fell on his sword hoping to give Antony a shot at changing Pohlad's mind. Ryan is ultimate organization man, and he wants Antony to have the job. That's all this is about. Kind of alarming that Pohlad would allow a temporary replacement GM make key decisions that could affect the team's future for a very long time. But, that's the kind of feckless owner he is.
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